Frankness is the willingness to open to a person his innermost world of thoughts and feelings, hidden from strangers. However, in the same place, something a little painful often begins to sound, since it is precisely difficult and painful things that one wants to hide, to make intimate.
Candor — communication or willingness to report private, intimate, usually hidden aspects of one’s life. Frankness is valued as honesty and as a sign of trust. It often, but not always, implies closeness, intimacy between a confessor and his confidant. However, inappropriate, excessive, unwanted frankness (especially between strangers) can be regarded as a violation of etiquette. Unlike sincerity, the content of candor is not necessarily related to the interlocutor. But frankness can be at the same time sincerity, which creates a double moral and psychological tension, since a person is told in the eye not just the truth about the attitude towards him, but the most complete, exhaustive truth.
Frankness, as a rule, is confessional in nature. The confessor seeks to «remove the burden from the soul», to report on his weaknesses, complexes and / or vices, misconduct. In addition, frankness may be associated with the need for advice about a particular intimate situation. People in need of candor tend to turn to psychologists and/or priests who are professional confidants. Friends and casual acquaintances (for example, fellow travelers on trains) can also act as confidants.